Wife Beating Quotes

#1. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

Christopher McDougall

#2. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

#3. White trash had a way of finding their graves. Along with wife beating and beer sucking, dying was probably their only core competency.

J.R. Ward

#4. As for wife beating, one survey found support for it from 62 percent of Indian village women themselves. And no group systematically abuses young women more cruelly than mothers-in-law, who serve as household matriarchs in much of the world and take charge of disciplining the younger women.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#5. I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

Liane Moriarty

#7. Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. When the sun is showing and there is a storm in patches of the sky, the devil is said to beating his wife.

Angela Khristin Brown

#9. That's how I knew, for example, that Private Seamus Fletcher, 45B-76423, was beating his wife and children every night.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?'
'I must admit that I do not.'
'There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing better to induce good cheer in a woman than a fine constitutional beating.

Jack Vance

#11. And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

Lord Byron

#12. Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.

Chris Rock

#13. If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

Amanda Peet

#14. To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

Ivan Turgenev

#15. I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

Adam Giles

#16. Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

Robin Wright

#17. We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Abraham Kaplan

#18. Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were untied in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais, with the arteries of its canals cold once the great pulse of the sea had ceased beating in them.

Georges Rodenbach

#19. The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.

Calvin Peete